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The American Way: The History of Two of America's Greatest Superheroes and How They Shaped American Popular Culture
Description
Both Superman and Captain America are the ancestors of modern superheroes and, through the lens of superheroes and popular culture, following their journey from their comic-book inception to their modern-day film incarnations gives us an idea of how American values have shifted. Superman and Captain America are very significant to American popular culture simply because, in a way, they both have shaped much of popular culture with respects to American identity. Because they were created when America needed heroes to look up to, they have helped mold the image of what an American hero truly is. The most important aspect of these two individual characters is how they have remained popular through the many changes that have plagued and molded American culture since their inception. This endurance can be attributed to the rhetoric that each hero has embodied, and the ways in which this rhetoric has or has not changed. By exploring both their comic book origins and their current, most popular feature films, we can discover how what they have had to say not only mirrors American values, but also illuminates these values within popular culture.
Date Created
2014-05
Contributors
- Trumble, Samantha Lynn (Author)
- Austin, Mary (Thesis director)
- Wheeler, Jacqueline (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- School of Letters and Sciences (Contributor)
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24 pages
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2013-2014
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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.22884
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minimal
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 2 years 8 months ago
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